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Do you still have a ‘Hotmail’ email address

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flagpolesitta · 28/03/2026 10:57

Keep seeing this mentioned on social media in videos or posts about being old 😳🤣
I have no plans to change my email but lots of people saying they hate giving their email address to people and having to say ‘@ hotmail.com’
I didn’t even realise new emails don’t still use this…

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5to5 · 28/03/2026 11:35

Mine is yahoo

8943paula · 28/03/2026 11:35

I set mine up in 2010, I didn’t realise I had such an unusual name to be able to set up a hotmail with my full name and no numbers so much later than everyone else!

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 28/03/2026 11:34

I loved my Hotmail email address! But it got hacked and no amount of tech wizardry was going to get it back, so I had to let it go and move on. Gutted. I now have numbers with my name which I never had before. Sigh.

imip · 28/03/2026 11:34

My dc have just started teasing me for mine! I have my full name @hotmail.com. I set it up on about 1996/7? I feel pretty cool about it esp as it comes up to its 3rd decade of constant use!

Whatisrichandhaveiearnedit · 28/03/2026 11:34

flagpolesitta · 28/03/2026 10:57

Keep seeing this mentioned on social media in videos or posts about being old 😳🤣
I have no plans to change my email but lots of people saying they hate giving their email address to people and having to say ‘@ hotmail.com’
I didn’t even realise new emails don’t still use this…

I don’t understand- what do new email addresses use?
What’s wrong with Hotmail?!

cardibach · 28/03/2026 11:33

Yes, proper dot com one. As others have said it doesn’t embarrass me that it’s an old address. It demonstrates to the youth that I’ve been using tech far longer than they have. It makes me feel quite special and experienced to be honest!

8943paula · 28/03/2026 11:33

Yes I do and I remember a few years ago reading that it looks unprofessional on a CV 😂 I won’t part with it though because a) I have [email protected] so I like it b) it would be a ballache to change.

EBearhug · 28/03/2026 11:33

Yes. It's the main one I use for dating and potential spam-generating stuff. I have another for personal stuff and friends, and another for official stuff like job hunting and buying things. (I also have a work email address, and a school one for voluntary stuff.) Another reason to use different providers is so I'm not 100% reliant on any one, same way as I like to have at least one Visa and one Mastercard.

I don't like single points of failure, it seems...

floppybit · 28/03/2026 11:31

I have a @hotmail.com email address, I think from late 90s!

Sartre · 28/03/2026 11:31

Nope mine is outlook, had it for at least 12 years. DH has Hotmail!

Thepeopleversuswork · 28/03/2026 11:30

Yep. Had it since the late nineties. I sometimes feel a bit self conscious if I’m in Zara or something like that and it marks me out as a bit of an old biddy.

I’m fucked if I can be arsed with the faff of changing it though and also its got emails in there from 20 years plus so its a bit like having my own archive!

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 28/03/2026 11:29

Yes! I have two!!

ChillWith · 28/03/2026 11:28

Me! Use a Gmail address for CV though

TiredShadows · 28/03/2026 11:28

My DH does though mostly uses his mail.com account. Mine is yahoo.

I did have a younger colleague remark how he hadn't seen yahoo in ages. All I could do was chuckle at that.

All my kids (14-21) also have yahoo, because I set them up for them when they were about 8 (Year 3) so they could do typing club with their own accounts. None have yet been bothered to change them to my knowledge, though have gathered various school/college/work emails along the way. I now wonder if it'll make them look older 😄

Member984815 · 28/03/2026 11:27

Typtoe · 28/03/2026 11:01

Yes although I have multiple email addresses to take advantage of free trials but my main one of my hotmail one I created probably 25 years ago!

Its just my name and year of birth. I'm perfectly happy to be the age that I am and if hotmail didn't give that away, my year of birth would anyway!

Same and I'll never change 😆 . I've enough to be remembering without making a new email

MyNextDoorNeighbourVotesReform · 28/03/2026 11:27

My Hotmail is my anonymous email address which I use for potential spammy stuff

Morepositivemum · 28/03/2026 11:27

yes but I do find lately outlook loading in slower or not loading in on bad internet so it mad made me think about changing. What about my thousands of emails though?!

Pancakeflipper · 28/03/2026 11:26

I have various emails but Hotmail is my main one. I love it.

It better not become obsolete..

Cosyblankets · 28/03/2026 11:25

bugalugs45 · 28/03/2026 11:03

Yes , a co.uk one though , my brother still has the original .com from late 90s!

Mine is 7 years old and it's Hotmail.com

DoorOpening · 28/03/2026 11:24

I don’t like to brag, but I would just add that my hotmail.com email address has an underscore between my first and last names.

AliTheMinx · 28/03/2026 11:23

caringcarer · 28/03/2026 11:06

Same. I don't care. I can remember it.

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Same. Love it!

AddictedToTea · 28/03/2026 11:23

Lifewontbethesame · 28/03/2026 10:59

Yes, with my full name, no numbers/special characters, I'm that old 🤣

Me too! And DH!

coe78 · 28/03/2026 11:23

Lifewontbethesame · 28/03/2026 10:59

Yes, with my full name, no numbers/special characters, I'm that old 🤣

I have an AOL one that is just my initial and surname. It does in fact still exist though I haven't used it since the days of AOL chat rooms. My parents were early adopters of all this stuff so it must have been about 1996, I was 7. My dad was like "you will need an email address in the future mark my words!" and set ones up for me and my then infant brother. Cheers dad 😄

Thedogswhiskers · 28/03/2026 11:22

i set mine up in 1998 and it includes my birth year which is rather embarrassing in hindsight

ManyATrueWord · 28/03/2026 11:21

Hotmail is a badge of honour! Had mine since 1997. Maybe people who knew me in the last century will want to contact me again 😂

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